Brief Summary Of The Play Our Town

The play Our Town is about the people of a small town of Grover's Corners in New Hampshire. This play focuses mainly on two families, the Gibbs and the Webbs. The play portrays teenage years, love and marriage, and death throughout the three acts. Throughout the play, Emily Webb, Mrs. Gibbs, and Joe Crowell suddenly die suddenly when they had their whole lives ahead of them. Wilder conveys that death happens at any time so one should live every day like it will be their last. Joe Crowell was very bright and graduated at the head of his class. He also got a scholarship to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, and again graduated at the head of his class. He was going to be a great engineer, but when the war broke out him and his education

She simply took everything for granted and when given the chance to go back and unimportant day in her life, her twelfth birthday, she finally realized how much never appreciated everything. After her death, Emily had the choice to go back to one day in her life. After Mrs. Webb and everyone else that had died convinced her to back to an unimportant day, she then had realized she took everything for granted and before she went back to the present time, she exclaimed “ Good-by, Good-by world. Good-by, Grover’s Corners… Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking, and Mama’s sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths… and sleeping and waking up (207),” When Emily said goodbye to small things like clock tickings, sunflowers, and new-ironed dresses, those would be items one would consider trivial and unimportant. When she says goodbye to these trivial things, it truly made Emily realize how much she never appreciated it when she was alive. She went back to a day she thought was unimportant and it resulted in her realizing how important every simple little thing was. When Emily was alive, she was so caught up in herself and never appreciated her daily morning conversations with her mom. Also, from dying at such a young age, she never got to grow old with George and see her kids grow up, fall in love, and have children. Emily took what little time she had alive for granted and never really realized it until she passed